Happy Friday before Christmas! Today I’m not even going to share something
Christmasey! I know??!?! I have a lot of birthdays that happen in December in
my family so I thought I’d share the card I sent my Mom.

I used the Tea in the Garden stamp set by Power Poppyfor the delicious cake – I mean
who doesn’t love chocolate cake on their birthday – plus I used the sentiment
from the fun Party Time collection to finish it off.

One last announcement for everyone...
if you happened to have stopped by after Thanksgiving, we had a fun
little “hunt” for a mystery digital download that you could nab for $1.
We’re bringing it back for the next several days — go grab Candy Cane Classic for a dollar to use on those last-minute gift tags!

Thanks for stopping in! Have a great weekend celebrating with your
families!

I’m up in the middle of the night pounding out 4 cards to hand to my son’s
three teachers and his bus driver. Typically his elementary school asks
families to donate pairs of pajamas and slippers for the local women’s shelter
in our town in lieu of teachers gifts. I asked him last minute this evening if
he wanted to get his teachers anything and he replied 'yes'. So he picked out 4
different colours of Amaryllis’ to give to each one.

So I’m up making cards to go with the gifts. Nothing like last minute
right?!?!

(I think the above card is my favourite!)

So I grabbed my new My Favorite
Things “Polar Bears Pals” stamp set and went to work.
The sentiment is from the MFT “Jingle All the Way” stamp set.

All the colouring was done with Copic Markers. I kept my coloured pretty simple to make the process faster.

The insides all contain the exact same sentiments. The top sentiment is from
Power
Poppy’s “Nice things to Say” and the bottom two are from the
“Poinsettia” stamp collection. I’d rather stamp a
sentiment then actually write something – looks so much better!

Now my son just has to sign the insides and they're done! Which one is your favourite?

Hey everyone! Christmas is only a few days away and I’m still making
Christmas cards. I always receive a few unexpected holiday cards delivered here
so I make extra cards to send back just in case.

Today I’m sharing a card for the Holiday Card 2016 Contest over at Paper-Garden.ca . This
amazing Canadian store (Hooray!) carries “everything paper”! They have a great assortment of
cardstocks, envelopes, ribbon and they even do invitations! I was lucky enough
to receive some beautiful cardstocks to use and showcase.

I have to say I love the Pearlized White paper – it was a DREAM to die cut
and it’s pearlized on BOTH sides of the paper so matter which side you use, it
sparkles! All of their pearlized papers shimmer on both sides.

I hope you too will come and participate along with me in the Holiday Cards
Contest. You only have until December 23rd to submit your
entries. For more information on how you can participate, visit here.

We are so excited to add these amazing designers to our team! You will see
their creations throughout our product releases (Stamp of Approval, mini releases and
(eh-HEM!), Ink releases!!!) as well as our challenges and in The Classroom at StampNation.

There's lots of fun stuff coming up in the StampNation forums. Make sure you come and check us out!

First off I made this cute little door hanger gift to put maybe some fun
holiday cookies or some sweet tasting chocolates in. I thought it might be neat
just to leave on a neighbours door with a pretty Christmas card.

And secondly, I used a beautiful purple bag from a local chocolate shop we
have here and repurposed it with a simple label for use for holiday gift
giving. Super duper simple! Not only did I include the stamps and dies for the
Holiday Mittens but I used the fun label dies from Merry Labels Dies from our
most recent Stamp of
Approval collection.

Don’t forget that Catherine has a few more gift ideas for the paper crafter
in your life…

Today is Day Three of the Gift Givers Guide for Paper Crafters! Catherine Pooler is sharing
some fun gifts to give the talented crafters in your circles. She has a few
ideas for you…

I too have a fun gift idea too for this holiday season. I went to my local
dollar store and picked up a simple lidded glass jar, filled it with chocolate
candies and proceeded to add a little spirit of the season using the extra fun
Holiday Mittens stamp and die set from Catherine Pooler Designs.

Catherine has this most adorable (and economical!) die and stamp bundle already
to gift called the Holiday Wrap Up Bundle.

The bundle includes 3 brand new stamp sets and one coordinating die set for
the craft lover in your world.

I also created a simple card to go along with this very simple and easy
gift. I figured this would make a great gift for a neighbour or teacher this
year.

Here are a few more fun gift ideas for the crafter in your life:Foundations Box – a box featuring 5 brand new Premium ink
pads, an acrylic block, 3 gorgeous stamp sets and 30 pre-scored premium card
bases to create all kinds of fun cards throughout the year.Friendship Bracelets – made of beautiful handmade paper beads
this gift is not only beautiful but supports third world women and their
families. See here for more details.

Thanks for stopping by today! I’ll have another fun project post again fro
you tomorrow! Happy gift giving!

Hey there! It’s Day 2 of the Gift Givers Guide for Paper Crafters and I’m
here to share with you another fun project featuring Catherine Pooler’s newest
product, the Holiday Wrap Up Bundle!
This bundle includes 3 brand new stamp sets and a coordinating die especially
made for this time of year!

Today I’m sharing a fun and easy gift idea for maybe a teacher, a bus driver,
a crossing guard and just simply for a fun friend. I found these fun bottles of
mini chocolate bars at my local Walmart and thought that a simple bottle topper
would do the trick. Fun, easy and no actually wrapping talent needed!!!

Catherine has released a fabulous new stamp and die bundle perfect for that
crafter’s stocking called the Holiday Wrap Up Bundle! It features 3 new stamps sets and one
coordinating die. These stamps are dies are perfect for making all kinds of
cards and projects.

Today I’m featuring the wonderful Holiday Mittens and it’s accompanying die set, the Holiday Mittens Dies. For my first project, I wanted to use
some fun Autumn colours… because, you know, sometimes those mittens appear
somewhat earlier than we want!!!

Another great gift for that crafter in your family, the Foundations Box. This pretty little box contains 5 delicious
brand new ink pads, 3 new amazingly designed stamp sets, a high quality acrylic
block and 30 pre-scored premium cardstock card bases. Perfect for that
beginning stamper!!! The Foundations Box will be back in stock VERY soon so if you wish
to purchase it, get one now and they get shipped sometime mid next week.

Don’t forget, Catherine also sells Gift Certificates for the Shop in $10, $25, $50 and $100
denominations! An easy gift plus it comes with a pretty little printable gift
card image from your special someone.

I’ll be sharing a few more projects this week featuring this fun Holiday Wrap Up Bundle so stay tuned to my blog this week.

Come along and join both the Bloom Brigade and the
Instant Gardners today and wish our very own Rhea
Weigand a very Happy Birthday!
Marcella has personalized a beautiful digital orchid image called Orchid
Dreams just for her today!

Come and join some of the Power Poppy girls and celebrate with Rhea today!

This month’s challenge is simply perfect for this month. A month full of
gift giving and fabulous treats. Our lovely hostess Christine Okken explains…

The idea this month is to create something that will be a sweet treat for
someone else (so think card, tag, hostess gift, etc.) designed to help with
those quick Christmas gifts.

For me, I like to make gifts of my favourite yummy cookies to give my
neighbours each year at Christmas time. I'm always looking for fun containers to give these goodies in. I
finally found these fun red (and I found green ones too!) plastic containers with lids at the dollar store… perfect
for all my baked goodies! Their lids are simple red plastic
with nothing on them so I thought I’d jazz them up to give out this year.

I used this sweet candy cane digi that Marcella gave out for free not too
long ago. (Oh Marcy! Can we get this one put back in the store for all our
fabulous Power Poppy friends?!?)

Copics: G03, G05, YG01, YG0000, R17, R29, Y15, Y23, E47, T1

Plus I also included a sentiment from the Holly
Golightly clear stamp set. Those sweet little snowflakes all around the
outer edge of the circle are from the Action Santa set. So dainty and delicate they are! Awwww!

Now come check out what the rest of the Bloom Brigade has created to share
with you today…